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单词 lounge lizard
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lounge lizard
lounge lizard n. slang (originally U.S.) a man who spends his time idling in fashionable society, esp. in search of a wealthy patroness.
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt > male flirt > lounge lizard
lounge lizard1918
lizard1935
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > fashionable
flâneur1854
lounge lizard1918
saga boy1941
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male
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cavalier1589
whisker1595
jinglespur1604
bravery1616
brisk1621
chevalier1630
man about town1647
man of mode1676
man of distinction1699
sprag1707
sparky1756
blood1763
swell1786
Corinthian1819
galliard1828
mondain1833
toff1851
flâneur1854
Johnny1883
silver-tail1898
knut1911
lounge lizard1918
old buster1919
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1918 Hatchet 4 Apr. 39/1 (caption) Nautical lounge lizards.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Apr. 4/4 The delicate, poetic cast of features, and the misplaced eyebrow adorning the nether lip of these lounge lizards, denizens of dansants and cabarets.
1923 Weekly Disp. 28 Jan. 3 In America he is so well known as to have got a special and picturesque nickname, the ‘Lounge Lizard’.
1925 G. P. Krapp Eng. Lang. in Amer. I. 117 Who will know a generation hence..that a crape-hanger is a reformer, or a lounge lizard one who suns himself eternally in good society.
1926 Punch 17 Nov. 534/1 Formal recognition of those firmly attached appendages of Society, the lounge-lizards.
1973 Times 29 Dec. 7/7 The £50 a week contract which..lets her keep her lounge lizard husband, Queckett, in the manner to which he is accustomed, lacks conviction.
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